Dallas Jenkins Gets Real About Daughter’s Chronic Pain, Wife’s Cancer, and the Struggle To Pray for Healing

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Dallas Jenkins speaking with Nick Vujicic. Screengrab via YouTube / @Nick Vujicic Official Channel

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“When you’re on the front line of God’s army taking over territory for his kingdom, there’s no luck, chances, or coincidences when the fiery darts come or the grenades come or nuclear bombs come from underneath the floor of the house to bring division or turmoil,” Vujicic said. “For those of us who are being obedient and sacrificially courageous to do what God’s asked us to do, there’s going to be opposition.”

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“It is the daily surrender on this side of heaven to say, ‘God, this would be the desire of my heart that I pray for with faith, me and my daughter for healing together,’” Vujicic added. “That should be the prayer, and allow God to be God…it’s God himself. He is the power. He is the healer. So be released of that kind of figuring out of what the Lord would really have…planned.”

In his new film, Vujicic discusses having an “attitude of gratitude” instead of being angry for what he does not have.

“I would remind everyone that if God hasn’t actually healed you physically today, there is some glory that’s going to be revealed,” he said. “He never wastes pain. All things come together for the good for those who love him, who’ve been called according to his purposes.”

“When I’m at the bottom, I remember Philippians 4:13: ‘I can endure all things through Christ who strengthens me,’” Vujicic said. “When I go through suffering, especially this next generation, no one wants to suffer, that’s any generation, but it’s like blessings, blessings, blessings.”

“No, there is a deeper blessing in long-suffering, in sharing in the sufferings of Christ—when you’re persecuted—in understanding that Jesus knows how it is to have pain and affliction,” he added. “If you’ve been betrayed or if you’ve been abused or if you’ve been abandoned, Jesus knows how you feel.”

“If you’ve been betrayed or if you’ve been abused or if you’ve been abandoned,” Vujicic said, “Jesus knows how you feel.”

Vujicic said his upcoming film is not about physical limitations but about the condition of the human heart.

Vujicic Thanks God for Not Giving Him Arms and Legs

“I thanked God with all my heart at age 24 that he did not give me arms and legs, because I met a little boy with no arms and no legs,” Vujicic shared. “And I thought to myself, ‘Wow, God…I can’t imagine you healing me, but then not healing little Daniel with no limbs.’”

“What would I tell him? Because I don’t know for sure if you’re going to heal him,” Vujicic continued. “But thank you, God, that to this day; you haven’t given me arms and legs despite my pairs of shoes in my closet and faith not of a mustard seed, but avocado seed, to show the world that you can do all things.”

Jesse T. Jackson
Jesse is the Senior Content Editor for ChurchLeaders and Site Manager for ChristianNewsNow. An undeserving husband to a beautiful wife, and a father to 4 beautiful children. He is currently a church elder in training, a growth group leader, and is a member of University Baptist Church in Beavercreek, Ohio. Follow him on twitter here (https://twitter.com/jessetjackson). Accredited member of the Evangelical Press Association.

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